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- Library Collection Record"The purpose of this book is to insure a deep appreciation of the eight-valley region in southern Arizona and to raise awareness of the various watershed organizations taking action to improve…Publication Date 2012
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- land management
- land use
- ranching
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThe tropics cover 8.2 billion hectares or approximately 40% of the world's land area. These regions are characterized by a large portion of the world's rapidly increasing population, high…Publication Date 2002
- carbon dioxide
- carbon dynamics
- carbon sequestration
- Carbon Sink
- greenhouse gases
- climate change
- soils
- socio-economic aspects
- land use
- agriculture
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe phenomenon of desertification involves the loss of biological or economic productivity and biodiversity in arid and semiarid croplands, pastures, rangelands, and subhumid woodlands due mainly to…Publication Date 2001
- desertification
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordDesertification is the diminution or destruction of the biological potential of land and can ultimately lead to desert-like conditions. It is an aspect of the widespread deterioration of ecosystems…Publication Date 2002
- desertification
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe chapter discusses the bioclimatic regimes that are generally determined by temporal and spatial averaging of weather patterns. Local weather variations result from these broad geographic-scale…Publication Date 2002
- desertification
- climate
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis chapter discusses the value and future of natural desert ecosystems. The goods and services provided by ecological systems and the natural capital that produce them are critical to the…Publication Date 2002
- desertification
- ecosystem ecology
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis chapter describes assessment, which is a one-time process that relies on a statistically valid sampling within a region and monitoring that consists of a series of measurements designed to…Publication Date 2002
- desertification
- monitoring
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordEcology and desert ecology have focused on feeding relationships within assemblages of organisms and/or the relationships of plants to the animals that feed on them. Major differences in the…Publication Date 2002
- desertification
- socio-economic aspects
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordDecomposition is a process that releases nutrient materials in the structure of plant and animal tissues to the soil solution where the nutrients are once again potentially available to plants.…Publication Date 2002
- ecology
- desertification
- soils
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordSummary The savanna biome is diverse, including formations ranging from almost treeless grasslands to more or less closed-canopy woodlands with considerable variation in plant composition, biomass,…Publication Date 2001
- savanna
- animal production
- plant production
- plant community ecology
- land use
- degradation
- agriculture
- ecology
- southern Africa